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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by mikeash on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:02PM (#10616028)
I would change that last part to say "means nothing when you have shady OS makers building this mechanism."

I mean, come on, Microsoft, what were you thinking? Vendors gonna vend, so you had to know how this "feature" was going to be used.

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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by gootdude on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:34PM (#10616267)
Microsoft created the feature so you'd actually have driver support when doing the reset. I'm sure we all love resetting a touch screen only machine to find out it has no touch support for the install.
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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by mikeash on Monday November 23, 2015 @03:24PM (#10617061)
Perhaps this would encourage vendors to actually follow standards for their input devices so they didn't require custom drivers. Win-win!
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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by thescriptkiddie on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:54PM (#10616858)
They could have just put the drivers on the CD like every linux distro ever.
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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by r00fus on Monday November 23, 2015 @04:11PM (#10617330)
You mean the CD recovery image disk which would ostensibly have all the same bloat/spyware as the PC itself?
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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by thescriptkiddie on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:44PM (#10617899)
No, I mean the official Windows CD (technically two DVD set now). New Windows versions are shipping frequently enough now that it would actually be possible.
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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by j_h_s on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:57PM (#10617958)
Microsoft could maintain specific install mediums for each device, including the drivers necessary, but without allowing vendors to load crapware
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